Anesthesia during hormone administration abolishes the estrogen induction of preproenkephalin mRNA in ventromedial hypothalamus of female rats

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 297-303

  Quiñones Jenab, Vanya ^c   Zhang, Chunyi ^a,c   Jenab, Shirzad ^c   Brown, Harold E ^b,c   Pfaff, Donald W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Barbiturate; Caudate putamen; Chloral hydrate; In situ hybridization; mRNA; Pentobarbital; Sedative

Indexed keywords

CHLORAL HYDRATE; ESTROGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PENTOBARBITAL; PREPROENKEPHALIN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL THERAPY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0342313501     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-328X(95)00232-H     Document Type: Article

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